- Cyrus Melikian
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Cyrus Melikian (1920-2008) was an Armenian-American coffee industry pioneer credited with several inventions that propelled coffee use into the American public. He is credit, along with his business partner, Lloyd Rudd, as the inventor of coffee vending machines[1] and the first US fresh-brew machine. Furthermore, Cyrus was instrumental in several other inventions, including coffee pods, post-mix vendor icemakers, and in-machine coffee bean grinders.
He initiated the Culinary Institute at Rockland Mansion in Fairmount Park. Melikian also established the Flavor-Maker Culinary Chef’s Training School, and taught there for 10 years. Melikian was awarded with the Person of the Year Award by the Tea & Coffee Trade Journal in 2002.[2]
After Rudd-Melikian was sold and became Refreshment Machinery, Melikian and his sons founded Automatic Brewers & Coffee Devices (Conshohocken, PA). Melikian had designed a method of sandwiching finely ground roast coffee between two long strips of filter paper, supplied in rolls for the RMi fresh-brew machine.
Patents
External links
- Melikian, K. Cyrus (December 1 1992). "Brewing coffee one cup at a time ... using coffee pods.". AllBusiness.com. http://www.allbusiness.com/manufacturing/food-manufacturing-food-coffee-tea/338547-1.html. Retrieved August 2010.
References
- ^ Cyrus Melikian, Vending And Coffee Pioneer, Dies At 88 Vending Times, Issue Date: Vol. 48, No. 12, December 2008
- ^ People of the year: Cyrus Melikian Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, 20 December 2002
Categories:- 1920 births
- 2008 deaths
- American inventors
- Armenian inventors
- American people of Armenian descent
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